English: Slow-chirping Mottled Field Cricket (Lepidogryllus comparatus) found along the creekline directly below the Rifle Range targets.

The True Crickets can be distinguished from other crickets by presence of long ovipositor and long filaments at the back in females. They have very long antenna. Their body is usually slightly flattened. Nymphs look similar to the adults except they are wingless. They are nocturnally active and live under dead plant materials and also feed on them. They may be found in burrows, crack in soil or amongst leaf litter. Males produce complex love songs by rubbing wings together from evening to dawn. Their hearing organs are on the front legs.

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